Buggery, Bollocks, Boris, Brexit. The French wine region of Bordeaux is in crisis, as winegrowers are asking for financial compensation to destroy their vines and change what's a long-standing growth culture. Nationwide strikes are scheduled to begin on Friday. https://www.france24.com/en/video/2...on-in-crisis-calls-for-help-to-pull-out-vines
Macron, the liberal champion. I guess not collecting the data in the first place is one way of making sure the figures look good, but there doesn't seem to be an argument that the people fined hadn't broken the law. Are there more fines in these area because they're migrants, or because there's more crime? "French laws strictly limit the collection of data about an individual’s race or ethnicity, which makes it difficult to determine exactly how the fines impact ethnic minority groups, but the census does collect some figures on immigrants, based on place of birth and nationality. A Reuters review of census-related and some fine-related police data from across France reveals that police have fined people at higher rates in areas with the heaviest percentages of immigrants." Oh, and isn't this a tad racist in and of itself? "In Epinay-sous-Senart, Assam’s town, a Reuters review of data from more than two years of police reports recording incidents involving at least one fine found more than 80% of those incidents occurred in two adjacent neighborhoods where residents say many ethnic minority families live. Of the 478 police reports that recorded fines from April 2018 to July 2020, 403 were from that part of town, according to the local police data, which Reuters obtained via a freedom of information request. The vast majority of the people fined had Arab or African surnames, the data showed." https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...sedgntp&cvid=c81ee1c84f57414a9104a50316da5beb
Tories say 4.7% for the NHS. I wonder how big that rise could be if the £200million given to Money Money was distributed amongst the staff. And that is just the fallout from one Tory scam. How many others have received substantial grift?
Blimey, they haven't taken getting knocked out of the world cup very well have they. Twenty-five people have been arrested in raids across Germany on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. German reports say the group of far-right and ex-military figures planned to storm the parliament building, the Reichstag, and seize power. A minor aristocrat described as Prince Heinrich XIII, 71, is alleged to have been central to their plans. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63885028
Didn't Putin mention the reason for his special operation was because of the rise of far right groups in the West...now 3,000 German Coppers are knocking down the front doors of right wingers, funny ole world. Nothing to see here.
Whenever lefties are reminded that the two things they idolise, Germany (Ursula-von-der-leyen) and Socialism (The EUROPEAN UNION) they always become uncomfortable.
